[3] In 1831, Samuel Shepard and Dr. John Wesley Langhorne organized Trustees of the Female Collegiate Institute to establish the first charted college for women in Virginia.

They are of brick and frame construction: In 1837, the Buckingham Female Collegiate Institute was incorporated by the Virginia General Assembly.

The college struggled financially and finally closed its doors in 1863.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

This article about a property in Buckingham County, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.